Gray Davis
Gray Davis
Joseph Graham "Gray" Davis, Jr.is an American politician who served as the 37th Governor of California from 1999 to 2003. A member of the Democratic Party, only months into his second term, in 2003 Davis was recalled and removed from office, the second state governor successfully recalled in U.S. history. Prior to serving as governor, Davis was chief of staff to Governor Jerry Brown, a California State Assemblyman, California State Controllerand the 44th Lieutenant Governor of California. Davis holds a...
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth26 December 1942
CityBronx, NY
We can buy it in the five to the five and a half cent range, ... That will stabilize the energy market, allow utilities to have some breathing room to pay off their creditors, and we will do all of this without raising rates to California customers.
I expect these bids on long-term energy contracts should stabilize the market and drive the price of electricity down. This is a key step in our efforts to keep the lights on in California at a reasonable price.
I believe the solution to the energy challenge is threefold: stabilize prices, increase conservation and increase generation,
Meanwhile, people have to join us and fight back against the federal government that has dropped the ball, that is in bed with these energy companies, that wants them to make more money than they've made before.
Here is my general approach to the energy companies. You have already charged the utilities a 50 percent credit penalty for the power they were buying from you. You're charging us a penalty. You're not going to get two bites of the apple here.
They're the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, and they will not do that. They will not pull the trigger.
Well, there's no question that the law passed in 1996 was flawed. It deregulated the wholesale market, meaning the price that the utilities had to pay energy companies for power, but not the retail market.
We will never forget the people who stood up to Mother Nature's fury. They are standing up to the worst of Mother Nature.
I've said many times to reporters that I have an obligation to serve a four-year term, and I'm committed to do so.
The state will be in the power business for a long time to come,
The whole purpose of this is a bridge to a long-term solution,
These are serious questions, which, if true, raise doubts about his ability to govern this state. You need to think about whether this is a risk California should take,
Boring is back! Boring might even be beautiful!
We believe there is a credible threat that there will be an effort made between November 2nd and November 7th to destroy one of those bridges.